Meeting Oriental Numismatic Society, Leiden 15 October 2016

[Oesho]

The annual meeting of the Oriental Numismatic Society in the Netherlands, will be held on Saturday 15 October 2016 at the premises of the Leiden University, Cleverdingaplaats 1 at Leiden. Members of continental Europe are separately informed with the latest Journal #227.
For all others and for those who didn't receive the program of the meeting, it can be found at the ONS-website http://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/regions/europe_section and http://www.onsnumis.org/leiden2016.shtml
Some of the topics of the meeting will be on the Arab-Byzantine coinage by Frank Hendriks,  Stan Goron will give a presentation on the Coinage of Nadir Shah, Tjong Ding Yih on the Chinese cash coins of Palembang and Vladimir Belyaev on a Few silver coins of Mongol states with Chinese, Uighur and Tibetan legends.
As usual there will also be room for questions, news items, etc. Members are invited to come forward with it. Traditionally, at the end of the meeting a small auction of Oriental coins and related books will be held. The proceeds of this auction is a welcome addition to the ONS-funds. For the auction list see: http://onsnumis.org/auctions/auct2016.pdf   
All the lots of this auction has been uploaded at the ZENO.RU Oriental Coins Database. http://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12851
Absentee bids for this auction are welcome and need to be sent, either by post or e-mail to the Regional Secretary Europe. Sent to http://www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org/regions/europe_section  or e-mail: lingen@wxs.nl
People who want to attend the meeting are requested to inform the Regional Secretary Europe, lingen@wxs.nl at the latest before the 12th of October 2015.

[Kopper Ken]

I'm surprised that the term Oriental is still used.  Here in the states if I used that term I would be hounded as politically incorrect.  Though that probably doesn't amount to much of an issue considering the present situation of our American politics

Still I won't use it at all given my wife is Korean.

KK

[Figleaf]

The Mandarin Oriental hotel chain is one of the very best in Asia. Oriental Trading Company, property of the US investment company Berkshire Hathaway, has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Internet Retailers. Amazing Oriental is the nicest Asian shopping chain of the Netherlands. Oriental Kitchen is a supermarket near me. It all shows how Asians, Europeans and Americans all use the word freely in a commercial context. With reason, since "of the East" has nothing demeaning to it. BTW, my wife is Chinese and we both adore Korean food.

That said, I have learned that the expression "politically correct" has a different, political, connotation in the US that cannot be compared to how it is used in Europe, where it just means "not giving offence in a way that could be perceived as somewhat exaggerated" (somewhat overdone, but within reason), rather than something like "to be avoided" (the evil political right).

Peter

[Kopper Ken]

It's amazing!!! After the war (WWII) America couldn't go continental (Europe) quick enough.  Now we've become too insulated.  Shame

KK